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Road Trip! Day One in North Carolina with Liars, Screaming Females, Deerhoof, and, that one guy from The Squirrel Nut Zippers.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Hopscotch Festival , Music Festivals , Liars , Deerhoof , Screaming Females , Tom Maxwell , The Squirrel Nut Zippers , Tags I've Never Used Before , THE SOUTH , Video
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In which we give you 10 more day jobs held by artists.
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You are gross, but not alone.
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You may have missed on this little-known thing called 50 Shades of Grey.
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Including graphic novels, poetry, journalism, memoirs, short stories and novels.
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The Bushwick resident will read tomorrow at Blake Butler's launch party.
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A Sandra Lee creation. It's the "Kwanzaa cake" of trees.
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WHO has all kinds of good ideas America ignores.
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Update! Andrew W.K. disinvited from Bahrain! Middle East to try "not partying" instead.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Andrew W.K. , Partying in the Arab World , Pulp , Endings , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Karen O , R. Kelly , Trapped in the Closet , Chromatics , After Dark , Italo-Disco , First Day at Work After Thanksgiving , Video
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There are six, and each one serves a niche.
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Jobs of the rich and famous: construction worker, male model, and museum security guard.
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10 trends in art!
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Calling all Brooklyn "It Girls."
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Worrying but unverified report of serial attacks on women in Bushwick.
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But Christopher Owens will never get over girls.
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It's a sold out show, but we'll get you there.
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Everybody's least-favorite trend story hook is still out there pushing sex toy sales for the holidays.
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It doesn't always go so smoothly.
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Son of famous sex researcher is exposing himself a lot. Eesh.
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We are so happy these places opened up this year. Because they are delicious. Delicious things make us happy.
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Because you already know which shows are winning awards.
by Virginia K. Smith
Tags: TV , best of 2012 , TV , Mad Men , Breaking Amish , The Mindy Project , Ike Barinholtz , Girls , Downton Abbey , Breaking Bad , 2012 election , Fox News , 30 Rock , Tina Fey , Lindsay Lohan , Liz and Dick , Video
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Why yes, this CAN get worse.
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Early Black Friday seems like a success. Hope you like turkey for lunch.
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For $79, he will teach you the tricks of "sugar-free cupcakes."
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This isn't exactly the first time he's been an asshole.
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Facebook is planning on putting their shitty ads on Instagram soon.
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Can you guess which STD the Heat Miser most closely resembles? (Hint: It's very common, so no big deal.)
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Thanks for coming, you guys.
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Some cute-ass ladies got married at West Point this weekend.
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Park Slope parents, take note!
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An honest to goodness case of some human beings having ever so slightly different taste in things than other human beings.
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Finally, the media started paying attention to hipsters this year. It's about time!
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One fellow's year of music, summed up with a serious stack of hits.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Best of 2012 , Songs of the Year , Savages , Sleigh Bells , Screaming Females , St. Vincent , Metz , Lower Dens , Micachu & The Shapes , Prinzhorn Dance School , Wymond Miles , Killer Mike , Kendrick Lamar , Azealia Banks , Angel Haze , Kitty Pryde , Taylor Swift , Carly Rae Jepsen , Ellie Goulding , Purity Ring , Icona Pop , Crystal Castles , Nite Jewel , Ariel Pink , Liars , Mirel Wagner , Lambchop , Video
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Also, how many Joshes can Red Dawn contain?!
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A sensitive new age guy with a big dick!
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We read the Liz and Dick tweets so you didn't have to. We didn't watch the movie though. We have standards.
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Clifford Odets's overlooked classic is ready now to take its place among the greats of 21st-century drama.
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But of course.
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A powerful programmer tried to stop the movie from being shown at SXSW.
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Former Park Sloper Stefan Lawrence explains how he approaches each issue.
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We spoke with someone who knows.
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Well, that's one way to lure customers back.
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This is the type of porn you'll (mostly) be able to read on the subway.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , sex , baron , art , aids 3-d , anne de vries , adrian wilson , antje peters , aaron mcelroy , bill durgin , blommers/schumm , bruce labruce , edith bergfors , grant willing , michael grieve , nekbar novosilky , pedro ramos , pinar yolacan , rasha kahil , robi rodriguez , qiu yang , aya ogasawara , bill hedley , cash teran , colby keller , jamie mccormick , paige turner , ryan stamatiades , shinobu , shota fujimoto , soleil jackson , syren sexton , tomoyo sakai , trudy alm , victoria hutchinson , viktor hachmang , zoe brown , peep shows , london
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People told you these records were good. They were lying.
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The results of The L Magazine 's Fourth Annual Film Poll!
by The Editors
Tags: Film , best of 2012 , best films , best films of 2012 , abendland , almayer's folly , beasts of the southern wild , bernie , cabin in the woods , the color wheel , cosmopolis , damsels in distress , deep blue sea , girl walk all day , haywire , holy motors , killer joe , lincoln , looper , the master , magic mike , miss bala , moonrise kingdom , once upon a time in anatolia , tabu , this is not a film , turin horse , whores' glory , zero dark thirty
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You never know what’s going to happen in this otherworldly art world, and today proves to be no exception.
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Start December off right.
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People buying into the idea that Animal Collective is on their way down are wrong. So wrong.
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In which Marie Calloway approaches—and possibly crosses—a line.
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Where were you when the war on men started? On your couch watching "Homeland"? Me too.
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"Is there something in Brooklyn which keeps attracting extraterrestrials?" Perhaps.
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Tomorrow the Supremes decide whether they're going to tackle this thing, finally.
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Bradford's ruptures, de Balincourt's ecstasies and Lansden's painstakingly meta-woven necessities are among the subtler points of note in these picks from the 11/21 edition of our fine-fettled newsletter.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Art Picks From Print , Robert Lansden , Robert Henry Contemporary , Mark Bradford , Sikkema & Jenkins , Jules de Balincourt , Salon 94 Bowery , Ecstatic Contact , Guido van der Werve , Luhring Augustine Bushwick
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The art world is gonna be in Miami this week. Let's have a kiki.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Kiki , Miami , Art For Change , AMO Studio , GIFRIENDS , Orchard Windows Gallery , death of a president and other stories , A.I.R. Biennial , Multiples: Radical Printmaking , Bluestockings
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Never too young to learn this lesson: get too drunk at the strip club, end up with a $28,000 bill.
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You don't have plans for next Tuesday, do you?
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We asked our favorite local authors to tell us the best things they read this year.
by Kristin Iversen and Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , best books of 2012 , best books , emily st. john mandel , james boice , amy waldman , bob spitz , helen phillips , lauren belski , joshua henkin , best of 2012
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For better or worse, this is how our borough sounded in 2012.
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In which Oberst plays "The Big Picture" 10 years after its release as it was always intended: alone.
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Cosmo and Harlequin are publishing some NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S smut books for your uncomfortable train kindle time.
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"You either love the Food Coop or you believe it's proof that socialism does not work."
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Theater , amy herzog , great god pan , park slope , north slope , the people in your neighborhood , park slope food coop , b train , community bookstore , cafe regular , al di la
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This week, we’re stuffing our stockings with local art.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , The Kitchen , Luhring Augustine , Glenn Ligon , 2012 Annual Juried Affordable Art Exhibition , Paper Monument Rings in the Holidays , P! , ACNY , R.H.Quaytman , The Quantum Effect , The Active Space , Devin Dunhill Clapp , et al Projects , Mark Menjivar , 0.00156 acres
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Metacinematic installations of Pasolini films and über-ornamental inquiries by Anton Würth are but a couple of the items of note in this new round of art picks from our goodly glossy.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Art Picks From Print , Pier Paolo Pasolini , MoMA , MoMA PS1 , Pocket Utopia , Anton Würth , Das Ornament , Freight+Volume , Do Something (Else) To It , Mark Bradford , Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
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These would make a nice holiday gift (to yourself).
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Not everything is embarrassing. (Some things are expensive.)
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Nothing is ravaged, nothing is burned.
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We drank at all of them, just to be sure.
by Cathy Erway
Tags: Food & Drink , Best of 2012 , bars , boozin , Tooker Alley , La Vara , Dear Bushwick , Miles on Wilson , Hillside , The Well , The Wick , Desnuda Cevicheria , Mayfield , Heavy Woods , Dick and Jane's Bar
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In which we preview Videorover, season 5.
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Drinking and tattoos for Sandy relief!
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The king of crazy time signatures died yesterday.
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Many, many New Yorkers are seeking Miami hook ups on Craigslist.
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Well, this is nice to hear.
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The evidence is mounting, maybe.
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You may have seen his work in Bushwick, or studied under him at FIT or NYU, but you won't find another artist like Peter Bardazzi.
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Give yourself the gift of tossing away your Metro Card.
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The movie-theater chain with booze and no texting is coming to Downtown Brooklyn.
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Lots of important things happened this year. Not the least of which was that the New York Times discovered Brooklyn. Actually, that was definitely the least important thing to happen this year.
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Your neighbors that published great first books this year.
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The writers you read each week explain their favorite films of the year.
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After a decade of free live music, a distinctive venue is priced out of Brooklyn.
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Here's the trick to really protecting your privacy on Facebook.
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Adrian Street is a Welsh coal miner's son-turned champion wrestler whose flamboyant, late-career persona exploits homophobia for personal gain in the ring. This is his story.
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If 2012 still leaves you feeling artistically unfulfilled, then you’ve still got one more shot at closure.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Storefront Bushwick , The Kitchen , Psychopompe , Studio 10 , Flux Factory auction , Toomer Labzda , Jean-Baptiste Bernadet , Patrick Brennan , Recession Art , Half Straddle
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A day for record-breaking gratitude, navel-gazing.
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A preview party for poetry journal Atlas Review featured strong talent and an engaged audience.
by Sarah Lerner
Tags: Books , atlas review , 61 local , boerum hill , justin boening , catherine lacey , camille rankine , kathleen ossip , eileen myles , natalie eilbert , monica d’avila mcclure , poetry
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Anti-gay brainwashing operation wasn't just mentally abusing patients, it was physically abusing them.
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Fuck Art Basel. This week, we've got a forty-two swing installation, some fresh talent, and the best wienerfest you will ever attend.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Park Avenue Armory , Ann Hamilton , the event of a thread , Hunter MFA Thesis Show , Sharon Matt Atkins , Henry Darger Landscapes , Ricco Maresca , David Wojnarowicz , EAI , Electronic Arts Intermix , Cynthia Carr , Tommy Turner , Brent Phillips , THE ART FAG CITY WIENERFEST AND FUNDRAISER , Postmasters Gallery
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And no, Trace Adkins isn't sorry.
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There are a few wide releases today, but there's a lot of stuff you've probably missed still playing, too.
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Galleries go on vacation.
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A brief summary of 2012 events and news, and a rounding up of the best dozen shows.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Brooklyn Art 2012 , Bushwick Open Studios , Northside Open Studios , Gowanus Open Studios , Bay Ridge Art Walk , Bushwick Basel , Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn GO , Best 12 of 2012 , Matt Freedman , Valentine Gallery , John Almanza , Dave Hardy , Regina Rex , Out Side , Studio 10 , The Brodmann Areas , Norte Maar , Andrew Hurst , English Kills , Grounded , Airplane Gallery , Rico Gatson , Andrew Ohanesian , The House Part , Peirogi Boiler , Cheon pyo Lee , Interstate Projects , Guido van der Werve , Luhring Augustine Bushwick , The New Brutalists , Parallel , Ira Eduardovna , MomentaArt , Allison Somers , Microscope Gallery , Brooklyn Nets , best of 2012
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Binders Full of Women not included.
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The 20 best plays, musicals, operas, classical concerts and readings.
by Dan Callahan and Henry Stewart
Tags: Theater , best of 2012 , the best shows of 2012 , the best plays , the best operas , the best classical concerts , 4000 miles , as you like it , the bad and the better , the caretaker , the caretaker , einstein on the beach , golden boy , in masks outrageous and austere , job , the lady from dubuque , mies julie , new york philharmonic , orpheus and eurydice , paris commune , peter and the starcatcher , scott mcclanahan , shuffle , storefront church , tribes , uncle vanya
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Repeal day! Cocktails! Freedom!
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Food & Drink , drinks , cocktails , booze , repeal day , dram bar , hot bird , weatherup , clover club , the shanty , hurricane relief
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The new-music powerhouse comes to BAM this week.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , Theater , so percussion , bam , greenpoint , prospect heights , brooklyn , where (we) live , the brooklyn music scene , new music , classical music , contemporary classical , steeped in the classicals
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Emergency contraception has been proven safe and effective, so what the hell, Sebelius?
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This judge is not having it with the turkey baster horse babies.
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I will never not love the icky evocativeness of the phrase "honey trap."
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Your daily indie-rock with uncommonly good sounding bass lines round-up.
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Signe Pierce is back with more gifs of cool people doing cool things. Like being Rihanna.
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The bars, parks, galleries and more where they shot Lena Dunham's HBO show.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: TV , girls , hbo , lena dunham , cafe grumpy , bellwether , tom and jerry's , the jane , vesuvio playground , lehman maupin , high line , 45 bushwick place , washington commons , coney island
Features
Before he takes the stage at Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Eve, we reflect on the Conor Oberst of then and now.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Features , Music , Conor Oberst , Bright Eyes , Monsters of Folk , Mystic Valley Band , Desaparecidos , Carnegie Hall , Fevers and Mirrors , Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
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On the cusp of DIY haven Silent Barn reopening in Bushwick, we talk to Roe about some of the things in store at its new home.
Album Reviews
The third album in a recent triad from the pop-purist-turned-uncompromising experimentalist is as weird as ever. Or, actually, weirder than ever.
Film Reviews
Andrew Dominik's chatty heist movie is a bit too on the nose.
Film Reviews
Jacques Audiard's latest sounds like a bizarro romantic comedy.
Film Reviews
How does a groundbreaking classic inspire something so derivative?
Film Reviews
Rick Alverson's gentle character study is also a study of masculinity.
Film Reviews
This new documentary about the drummer in Cream explores how attitude influences artistry.
Film Reviews
Dreamworks' latest feature is about protecting children—even from grown-up themes.
Film Reviews
The 1988 film is a letter to LA that reads like a limerick scrawled with a poison pen.
Film Reviews
Joe Dante's 2003 Back in Action harnesses the old cartoons' lunatic energy. But why?
Film Reviews
The new batch does far more damage to a far worse culture in this 1990 sequel.
Film Reviews
This 1986 documentary about HO-scale enthusiasts pits white elephants against termites, the director against Manny Farber.
Film Reviews
Bob Clark's 1974 proto-slasher is delightfully monstrous.
Film Reviews
Ken Burns's searingly political doc tells the story of black teens who falsely confessed to rape.
Film Reviews
Joe Dante's 1998 satire shows how "violence" becomes "action" when you swallow the marketing.
Film Reviews
This 1973 horror allegory about killer subway freaks is more than just a cannibalism frightmare.
Film Reviews
Peter Jackson's plodding prequel is often interminable and only occasionally spectacular.
Film Reviews
A small town unravels after it discovers the local crematory has just been dumping dead bodies.
Film Reviews
An impressionistic portrait of the French Quarter.
Film Reviews
Caveh Zahadi acts obnoxious in the Middle East in this narcissistic doc.
Film Reviews
Another Ed Burns joint.
Film Reviews
The physical desperation is palpable in Jan Troell's 1971 drama.
Film Reviews
Bertrand Tavernier's 1980 sci-fi drama about dying on reality TV posits that everything has to mean something .
Film Reviews
MoMA will screen 71 of Art Theater Guild's films, including Kazuo Kuroki's 1966 Silence Has No Wings .
Film Reviews
This hand-animated movie wrings emotion from its grotesque heroes.
Film Reviews
The critters in Joe Dante's 1984 nightmare are both Cold War invaders and American teenagers.
Film Reviews
Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1968 film was briefly banned for its sexuality—but today wouldn't even qualify as soft-core.
Film Reviews
With that gravelly purr, those smiling eyes, that bitter grin, Gazzara embodied a certain style of 20th-century manliness.
Film Reviews
Ben Gazzara plays the mobster unromantically in this 1975 biopic.
Film Reviews
Claude Lelouch's 1966 Oscar-winner is a series of beautiful images detached from meaning.
Restaurant Reviews
“Seasonal fare, Italian influences, indie soundtrack” sounds a little contrived, but it works!
Bar Reviews
This elegant spot is the latest example of a changing Crown Heights.
Restaurant Reviews
There are no long lines at this Columbia Street Italian spot.
Bar Reviews
Can a garish new sports bar survive in such a tasteful neighborhood?
Ira Eduardovna’s film installation at MomentaArt is internally conflictual in its terseness—and thereby fully engaging.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Art
Allison Somers’ solo exhibition at Microscope Gallery culls particular images from specific locations to probe collectively nebulous depths of memory.
Theater Reviews
This South African Strindberg adaptation features thrilling lead performances.
Theater Reviews
Christopher Durang's latest is silly but also touching.
The women in Alice Munro's latest collection are more liberated than their predecessors.
Lauren Belski's debut collection looks at how pasts personal and cultural affect the present.
Philip Pullman retells these classic tales.
Sex, Dating and Other Atrocities
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Art Fag City
Can anyone claim authorship of an online aesthetic?
Sex With the Natural Redhead
And other weird shit people say in bed.
Art Fag City
And who cares? Can't we just enjoy them as games?
Features
From your run-of-the-mill music lover to the person who hates everything about the holidays. We've got you covered.
Features
From your run-of-the-mill music lover to the person who hates everything about the holidays. We've got you covered.
Features
Surveying the decimation.
Features
Helping to cut through the red tape to help Rockaway.
Features
Meet 11 young Brooklynites we think you should know.
Features
Here are the things we love.
